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Post by Domino on Feb 15, 2022 15:56:38 GMT -5
clue can be hidden in a Swapping Alphabet Cipher (page numbers may have been messed up after first addition and with downloads so this clue may have had additional issues) Horses that have won the derby: plaintext: spendabuckjohnstownbubblingoverblackgolddecidedlyworthgenuinerisk ciphertext: AHMFLSJMKCRGPFALWOVTCTJDQFOGDWZTTSKCOGTVLWKALWLDGOWJBZOWVMQFMJQKS- converted to Wingdings 3. Unusual capitals on a page spell THIRTEEN as the hint for page 13. Cipher text 1: IJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZABCDEFGH converted to Wingdings1 on page 13 top Cipher text 2: STUVWXYZABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQR converted to Wingdings2 on page 13 bottom
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Post by Domino on Feb 15, 2022 16:08:40 GMT -5
I can't even really figure out what I was getting at with the book cover clue? I remember wanting something to be there that was discoverable yet not lead to anything truly important to pinpoint the treasure. Here are my notes. I apologize for not having more to add.
Book Cover Cipher
Straddling Checkerboard Cipher Surrounding COWBOY Pic with the date underneath.
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 S EAT ON R I 1 B CD FGH J K L 9 MPQUVWXYZ
V I S I T T W E L E V E D O TOR G T O S EE H I G H R E S O L U T I O N V E R S I O N C O W B O Y 948 0 8 4 4 95 2 19 2 94 2 12 5 4 5 7 14 4 5 0 22 15 8 14 15 7 2 0 5 19 93 4 8 5 6 94 2 7 0 8 5 6 11 5 95 10 5 97
948084495219294212545714450221581415720519934856942708561159510597 666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666 151014614101015118715815108781110111371010116887111471071113861171515910141112151081361411127711151176111513
HBGNGBBHCIRHIHBIRICBCF RBBCNIIRCGR BRCFINCRHH9BGCDHBIFNGC DRRCHCRNCHF
Amended for square pic frame mode: HBGNGBBHCIRHIHBIRICBCF RBBCNIIRCGR BRCFINCRHH9BGCDHBIFNGC DRRCHCRNCHF HBGNGBBHCIRHIHBIRICBCF RBBCNIIRCGR CGNFIBHDCGB9HHRCNIFCRB FHCNRCHCRRD
HBGNGBBHCIRHIHBIRICBCF RBBCNIIRCGR BRCFINCRHH9BGCDHBIFNGC DRRCHCRNCHF -Mini Pics Red Rock (66 Characters) In Square Picture Frame mode it reads: HBGNGBBHCIRHIHBIRICBCF RBBCNIIRCGR CGNFIBHDCGB9HHRCNIFCRB FHCNRCHCRRD
Clues: January 9, 1899 (-1, -9, 1899) *This date is used to set up the blank spaces after it has been figured to be a Straddling Checkerboard SEAT ON R I66 (make a vigener) *This phrase is used to know the placement of the top row of high-frequency letters in “ “ cipher as well as the number 66 in which you string to use for the subtraction figure to find the real numbers that stand for the final letters in the cipher.
Red Herring for the above date: Cable from Mark Twain to W.T. Stead (January 9, 1899) Quoted in Albert Bigelow Paine, (ed.) Mark Twain's Letters (New York, 1917) To Wm. T. Stead, in London
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